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Old And New Quotes (page 9)

As soon as a woman's primary social value could no longer be defined as the attainment of virtuous domesticity, the beauty myth redefined it as the attainment of virtuous beauty. It did so to substitute both a new consumer imperative and a new justification for economic unfairness in the workplace where the old ones had lost their hold over newly liberated women. Naomi Wolf
When you vote, you only change the names of the cabinet. When you shoot, you pull down governments, inaugurate new epochs, abolish old orders and set up new. George Bernard Shaw
They took over from the old order not only most of its customs, conventions, and modes of thought, but even those ideas which prompted our revolutionaries to destroy it; that, in fact, though nothing was further from their intentions, they used the debris of the old order for building up the new. Alexis de Tocqueville
Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are. Henry David Thoreau
Are you New World or Old?' 'Sounds like a novel by Henry James.' 'Never read him.' 'Don't. But that was his question and he plumped for the Old. Robertson Davies
It was Carrot who'd suggested to the Patrician that hardened criminals should be given the chance to 'serve the community' by redecorating the homes of the elderly, lending a new terror to old age and, given Ankh-Morpork's crime rate, leading to at least one old lady having her front room wallpapered so many times in six months that now she could only get in sideways. Terry Prachett
Working on a new idea is kind of like getting married. Then a new idea comes along and you think, 'Man, I'd really like to go out with her.' But you can't. At least not until the old idea is finished. Stephen King
Steven Wright quote: "You know, the New Testament is pretty old. I think they should..."
You know, the New Testament is pretty old. I think they should call them the Old Testament and the Most Recent Testament. Steven Wright
Love loves to love love. Nurse loves the new chemist. Constable 14A loves Mary Kelly. Gerty MacDowell loves the boy that has the bicycle. M. B. loves a fair gentlema. Li Chi Han lovey up kissy Cha Pu Chow. Jumbo, the elephant, loves Alice, the elephant. Old Mr Verschole with the ear trumpet loves old Mrs VErschoyle with the turnedin eye. The man in the brown macintosh loves a lady who is dead. His Majesty the King loves Her Majesty the Queen. Mrs Norman W. Tupper loves officer Taylor. You... James Joyce
Leighton Meester quote: "I love Edith Wharton. And I love old New York. Anything to do..."
I love Edith Wharton. And I love old New York. Anything to do with New York. Leighton Meester
I call it an old-fashioned seafood house for the new millennium. We are trying to update what we know as old fish houses and places like that, which are great, but I want to give it a new, fresh look with updated versions of the classics we all love. Todd English
Isaac D'Israeli quote: "The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of..."
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age. Isaac D'Israeli
You know when you take the paint off an old canvas and you discover that something's been painted underneath it? That's what I feel like - that part of the old is coming through the new. Carly Simon
Eileen Caddy quote: "Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary..."
Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter. Eileen Caddy
Russell Johnson quote: "If any man be in Christ, he's a new preacher. The old things..."
If any man be in Christ, he's a new preacher. The old things are passed away and all things become new. Russell Johnson

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